The Akatsuke have been long defeated. Sasuke's plan to destroy Konoha has been compromised. The entire land of shinobi has been left with calm and peace it has awaited for that lasts... until now.

While the major crime syndicate organisations have been crippled, others still pose a threat to the entire nation. As such, the group who calls themselves the Arashi plead for the assistance of a team of ninjas to aid them in protecting their sacred burial ground from the Ogawa.

Kaneda wriggled around in his bed, disturbed by the constant "beeping" from his alarm clock. He pulled open his heavy eyelids and allowed his sight to adjust to the flashing numbers 8:30.

He whacked the alarm clock, which fell off his side table. He turned to his other side, wrapped around in his warm blankets. He groaned.

"I'll have to get up sooner or later..." he said allowed. Kaneda would be late for the mission briefing if he didn't get up out of bed. Grudgingly, he pulled himself away from the warm sheets, and walked across the dark room towards the window. He opened it, and a gush of light surrounded his room. There he overlooked the streets of Konoha in the early morning. People were already up and about: attending to their business.

Akagi Shurijima walked slowly through the wet and muddy forest that he was in.

He had been traveling for one day and a night straight, without rest, not that he needed it.

As a Samurai, he had decided to leave his hidden country and go out to the outside world and learn something. What? He'd find that out in good time.

The rain pattered all over his black and red armor, luckily avoiding his precious daisho or swords from becoming wet. He'd have rough time with rusty weapons.

He continued walking until he noticed several buildings and a road. He began walking in that direction until his foot made contact with the muddy road. He then sloshed out into the open street. '

He seemed the only one on the road, or anyone outside for that matter. It was early in the morning, why would anyone be out and about at this hour? Akagi shrugged the thought off and slogged again down the road, towards whatever place he was bound for.

He hoped that his family did not have a feud with this village, as it did with so many of the others. Perhaps he'd get a chance to handle such feuds while he was traveling.

Akagi's stomach rumbled and he shuddered for a second. He should've packed more food, but not much could be spared in his country. He'd have to talk to one and the local villagers, or find some sort of storehouse.

He was a Samurai. How hard could it be?

you very much If a tree would fall in the woods.....would the other trees laugh at it?

Akagi didn't like this situation. Somehow, the villager had outnumbered him, the villager was probably a ninja of some sort. Akagi hated ninjas, they were always a thorn in the Samurai's side. He would fight nonetheless.

He pulled the sword out completely and dropped into a defensive stance.

He looked at the villager, and charged.

"BANZAI!!!!" He yelled.

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One of the villagers fell as Akagi approached. He used his foot to roll them over and stuck a foot on the villager to keep her still. He then raised the blade high above his head thrusted it down into the villager's stomach. The person quickly disappeared.

An illusion thought Akagi.

He tore his blade out of the ground and continued running, even in his heavy armor. If his instincts were correct, he'd have to kill everyone one of them until the true villager showed themself. He would enjoy this.

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Kaneda turned the corner of the street when all of a sudden he saw a commotion. One of his peers, Karela was thrown down onto the wet ground and was about to be staked with a large sword, carried by an armored man.

Kaneda watched his horror as the sword flung down... only to realise Karela had disapeared into smoke. He was relieved to find out that was a shadow clone.

"Right, time to put an end to this..." Kaneda sighed. He clapped his hands together. "Kageyose no Jutsu (Shadow Endgame Technique)"

Instantly, tentacles made from shadows formed from his own, and creeped up to the psycotic man wielding the sword. They restrained him from moving, paralysing him.

"First off, psycho: attacking an innocent person right here in the hidden leaf village is a bad idea. Secondly, its no use trying to escape: this technique has fully restrained you. Why were you attacking her in the first place?"

He had been captured. Something most Samurai hated for the shame. Most would take their own lives for this.

But Akagi was not that honorable yet.

He used his peripherial vision and spotted the man who'd stopped him.

"It was...a misunderstanding, now that I think about it. You're villager seemed hostile...ninja. You're kind are foul like that. Now, I ask you, release this cursed spell you have. Do away with me honorably if you will at all."

Akagi clenched his teeth with his last sentence.

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"It was...a misunderstanding, now that I think about it. You're villager seemed hostile...ninja. You're kind are foul like that. Now, I ask you, release this cursed spell you have. Do away with me honorably if you will at all."

Kaneda looked at him strangely. He certainly did not act like a ninja. This man was something different, given from the strange armor he wore. Many shinobi were familiar with the Samurai. Was this man one of them?

"And if I let you go, whats to stop you from going on another rampage?"

Sam stepped out into the street, he had heard the yelling. their were people out there, but the rain was coming down hard enough to make it hard to see them. he walked towards them, keeping his swords near him.
" what seems to be the- wait... Akagi? What are you doing here?"Sam asked.

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Deep thought #1: In the end, everyone dies. No one can outrun time, death itself is always breathing down your neck, just waiting to slip the noose over you. But, in your time of death, what matters is not when or how or even why. What matters is what you do with it. Do you sit down and call it quits, or do you get up, stare your killer and death itself in the face, and laugh copiously, right until the end.

"Kinda... We both trained together, He gave me this sword" Sam responded, pulling out his large sword.

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Deep thought #1: In the end, everyone dies. No one can outrun time, death itself is always breathing down your neck, just waiting to slip the noose over you. But, in your time of death, what matters is not when or how or even why. What matters is what you do with it. Do you sit down and call it quits, or do you get up, stare your killer and death itself in the face, and laugh copiously, right until the end.

Yes, they had trained together in some of Akagi's earlier journeys, but not all went well. There was a slight history, including Sam disgracing one of Akagi's friend's familys, shaming them greatly. Akagi's opinion of Sam greatly changed, and it was nearly his duty to avenge his friend's shame.

Akagi let out a roar of complete anger and fury and swung his katana around at Sam's neck.

Sam gulped, he had forgotten about the situation between them. He had forgot how honor-bound Samurai are. Sam walked away, heading towards the forest. Once there he began practicing his jutsu's and his sword tecniques. suddenly five rogue ninjas came out of nowhere.
" Don't make it too easy for me now." Sam said as he tried out a new jutsu...
" Summoning Jutsu!" he yelled out, and a wolf appeared. Not as deadly as he had hoped, but it was better than nothing.

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Deep thought #1: In the end, everyone dies. No one can outrun time, death itself is always breathing down your neck, just waiting to slip the noose over you. But, in your time of death, what matters is not when or how or even why. What matters is what you do with it. Do you sit down and call it quits, or do you get up, stare your killer and death itself in the face, and laugh copiously, right until the end.

The situation had clearly been handled. Kaneda sighned, looking up at the cloudy sky and the rain drops falling on his face. Soon the clouds moved elsewhere, and the sun beamed down on his face. He turned to look at the rainbow that had been formed.

Then he looked down at both Akagi and Karela. "Right, well I got some business to attend to. I'm supposed to be meeting the Hokage right about now to recieve a mission briefing."

He turned and walked away. "Welp, be seeing you..." he greeted goodbye to Karela. Then he walked in the direction of the Hokage Residence...

Sam walked out of the forest, blood covering him. the rogue ninjas had been all too easy. then he heard someone calling for him. He turned around and saw a young genin walking towards him.
" The...Hokage...Would...Like...to...see...you" He said through heavy breaths.
"Thanks kid, and get your asthma checked out, or you'll never make it past the trials." Sam responded

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Deep thought #1: In the end, everyone dies. No one can outrun time, death itself is always breathing down your neck, just waiting to slip the noose over you. But, in your time of death, what matters is not when or how or even why. What matters is what you do with it. Do you sit down and call it quits, or do you get up, stare your killer and death itself in the face, and laugh copiously, right until the end.

Kaneda stared up at the large, rounded Hokage residence. The sun shined on its red-painted surface. He yawned as he walked through the front door and walked his way to the Hokage's office.

He faced the closed door infront of him. But he stopped when he heard strange sounds coming from within. It almost sounded like growling and grunting, but the sound was muffled. Curious as to what it was made from, Kaneda opened the door.

HIs eyes narrowed on the figure sitting on the seat, with its arms behind its head and the chair leaned back with the man's feet sitting on the desk cluttered with papers. The strange noise was coming from the snoring of the 6th Hokage: Naruto Uzamaki. He was fast asleep.

"Urm... hello?" Kaneda spoke. The Hokage still didn't wake up. He was wearing his flame patterned Jacket over his black and orange jumpsuit. HIs blond hair had increased in size, and the three scars on each cheek were still present. Uzamaki had grown older, but not with the mind of a matured adult.

Suddenly, someone had rushed past Kaneda and towards the sleeping beast in the chair. "The amount of times I have to wake him up..."

The figure started shaking the Hokage lightly, but Naruto still hadn't budged. He growled more snoring in his chair. "I-I'm deeply sorry about this. He's not used to waking up early in the morning."

Kaneda looked dumb founded. He wasn't sure what to do in the situation where the Hokage was sleeping on the job. The assistant still shook Naruto, until he eventually woke up. "Yeah, yeah, yeah! I'm up!"

He out stretched his arms and gave a big yawn. He looked across the table towards his visiter.

"Er... Oh, right. Kaneda Yamagato..." he searched through his pile of papers to pick up a file. "Our other guest hasn't arrived yet... whats keeping him. Eh, he should be arriving shortly anyway..."

Sam arived at the Hokage Residence. Upon entering he saw Kaneda standing next to Uzimake. Sam bowed, as low and deep as he could, and said, " good morning Hokage-Sama, I hope you have had a wonderf-"
" Ahh save it!" Naruto interrupted.

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Deep thought #1: In the end, everyone dies. No one can outrun time, death itself is always breathing down your neck, just waiting to slip the noose over you. But, in your time of death, what matters is not when or how or even why. What matters is what you do with it. Do you sit down and call it quits, or do you get up, stare your killer and death itself in the face, and laugh copiously, right until the end.

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Reason: Wrong japanese word after Hokage again

( I can't understand what Jmac said...it all just shows up in Japanese or some other language)

"My name is Karela, I'm one of the chunin here."

"I don't know what your name is however...well. whatever it is, I have some advice to give you. If you ever see a blonde-haired man with flames on his robes, don't ever insult anything Ramen related. He will come after you."

I made that mistake once...I still can't believe he managed to chase me up to the very top of the Hokage's residence

Akagi had no plans on making any more enemies, he had had enough for one day. He'd have to discover what this 'Ramen' was, though. Was it perhaps noodles? Akagi didn't know, either way, it would be an adventure.

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"Now that I've gotten back at you for trying to cut me up with that sword of yours earlier...you can try some of the regular ramen."

Karela grabbed the Big guy's bowl and eagerly began to chow down.

"Woops, almost forgot."

Karela handed the big guy the bowl of regular ramen.

"You'll like this one alot better. it's not spicey at all. Believe me, if you keep eating that bowl, your going to end up in the hospital. Only the Hokage and a few others are able to handle the tuesday special. I'm sorry about that, but I don't like it when people chase me with swords."

There was a pause after the man named Gatoa finished speaking. "And thats the deal. This clan who call themselves the Ogawa are threatening the ecosystem of the Sacred Burial Site. They are invaders more like, and they must be stopped."

The Hokage scratched his head and pulled out a file from within his desk, listing any organisation or clan marked with a name begining with the letter "O". He flipped through the file and eventually gave up and closed it. "Hmmm... my records show no listing of such a group or organisation..."

"These people are recent. They're newly established, which is why you cannot find anything. Much like us: the Arashi is a fairly young organisation dedicated to protecting our ecosystems and environment."

"Its an ancient temple from an early civilisation. It served as a tomb for the Warlord Magato and his servants. Outside the temple, the area is covered with a very lush and rare plants and vegetation. We cannot afford to lose them to these savages..."

Gatoa threw a document with images of the site onto the Hokage's desk. Naruto examined it. "I heard of such a place. Hmmm... yeah, the Shinobi have recently discovered this place. This temple was built underground: the vegetation grows in within the darkness."

"Yes, and the shinobi that discovered the temple were eliminated by the Ogawa. This act of barbarism shall not go unnoticed. They must pay for their crimes!"

Naruto put a hand near his mouth, while thinking. He removed the hand, and looked back up. "Alright, then we shall essemble a team to accompany you to the burial site. Kaneda and Sam are already assigned for this mission, but we'll need more man power by the look of this... Hinata."

He looked at his assistant. She finally revealed her face to everyone: she was a very distant person. Her lavender eyes looked down at Naruto as her name was called up. "We'll need abit of muscle in this. <sigh> I'm gonna regret doing this... Summon Tategami immediatly."

"R-Right..." she said nervously. Then she smiled and walked out of the room. Naruto looked up. "Alright, that two members with the possibility of a third. Kaneda and Sam, I want you to go around the village and select some of your strongest peers for this mission. But not too many, we'll wanna keep this inconspicuous."

"Well...your in the Village Hidden in the Leaves in the Land of fire."

Karela took a gulp of water

"As for who's in charge...that would be the Sixth Hokage. His name is Naruto Uzuamki and he's a friend of mine. He's the blonde haired guy with flames on his robes that I warned you about."

"As a matter of fact...I was going to visit him today, your welcome to tag along if you wish...but before we do anything, we need to find you a place to spend the night. you can't sleep in my apartment...it's not big enough...when we're done, I'll try and find somewhere for you to sleep."

In a local apartment of the village, Asuka Kyo was meditating, sitting on her cushion. Eyes closed and legs crossed, she started to focus on her jutsu. Like Sensei Benjiro taught her: Set your mind in a calmer state. Never embrace the anger. It's like Fire. But Water is calmer. More focused...

"I... am strong," Asuka whispered. "I... will not back down. One heart... one mind. I will do whatever I can to be a protector. A guardian."

As she continued to meditate, something came to mind. Asuka's eyes shot open. "Just remembered. Naruto's here in the village." The young Chunin stood up from the cushion, and looked around. "Maybe I should ask if I could be assigned a mission." Asuka thought deeply. Then she said, "But then... I might be too late."

The young woman smiled. "That's ridiculous. It's never too late for a mission." Smiling, she stepped out of the apartment, closing the door. As she walked down the path, Asuka thought about all that she had been through. Teaching under both sensei, which was the old wise man Benjiro and her crazy but loving uncle Chokichi.

Asuka smiled. "I'll find a way to help this village or any place that is in need." She then looked up at the sky and smiled sadly. "I will not fail you mom and Uncle Chokichi."